... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last| Contents| Next Issue 52 House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power James Carroll Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 2006, $30 h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism (New York: Grove Press, 1969). This is on p.21: 'Pentagonism nonetheless differs from imperialism in that it does not share ...

... Issue 40 The Clash of the Icons Douglas Valentine Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an 'act of conscience' that helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. This 'act of conscience' also, albeit accidentally, contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions had allowed CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and erstwhile FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office ...

... of the decade, providing the US government keeps funding it and charges no fees for the system's signal. Mr Pace warns that unless Uncle Sam continues to support the GPS, Japanese and European techies may opt for the rival Russian Glonass system. Unfortunately, the Glonass is already the system of choice for true global positioning buffs, since the Pentagon degrades the information it provides non-military users. The non-degraded Russian system allows for accuracy of better than 10 meters to all commercial users. And it probably comes with a kool Red Star logo like the pocket watches advertised in Private Eye. The Rand Corporation's support for public funding of GPS is but the tip of a large iceberg of US ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 30 Letter from America Alex Cox CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a DIA campaign to remilitiarize the US intelligence structure. According to Coleman the Pentagon has never forgiven President Truman for turning OSS into a supposedly civilian entity, and is well on the way to running the entire US ...

... evidence). The Twin Towers were demolished by explosives, not the planes (the planes were a cover story). The hijackers, run by the Americans, were not al-Qaeda. The hijackers were al-Qaeda but since al-Qaeda is a creation of the Americans, the operation was run by them (or the Israelis). Whatever hit the Pentagon it wasn't Flight 77 (the hole is too small). Etc. etc.. The authors work through the entire event, presenting these and many other variations; and, oh yes, there is a truck load of loose ends, contradictions and anomalies in the official picture – so many that in almost any other instance I ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 46 Pretexts Secrets: A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg New York: Viking, 2003 Colin Challen MP The timely publication of Ellsberg's memoir shows that from the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident to the Arabian Gulf in 2003, little seems to have changed in the United States' approach to starting war. Ellsberg's account of secret White House activity in the wake of the Tonkin incident shows how initial ineptitude was turned into cynical manipulation to create the pretext for ramping up military activity in Vietnam. The key component in securing the future of any military campaign would be to convince Congress that ...

... device enables him to not pass judgement on the various claims presented. Up to a point this is legitimate because the data available is so complex and amenable to so many interpretations. But only up to a point. Here's an example. In the official story the bodies of the passengers and crew of Flight 77 (which crashed into the Pentagon) and Flight 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) were identified by DNA there not being much left after impact and fire. Indeed, as part of the spin-off of the 9/11 events, those involved in this DNA identification, from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, mounted an exhibition in Washington describing how they had done ...

... groups and other non-governmental organizations. The other tradition, less recognized, believes in and teaches the use of repressive violence, in Indonesia and other parts of the Third World. The conflicting goals of these two American traditions have led to recurring showdowns in Congress. In March 1998 Congress learned that, despite its express prohibition in 1992, the Pentagon had continued to supply training to the Indonesian army unit, Kopassus, that has been most involved in massacres and torture over the last 35 years. On May 8, 1998, the Pentagon headed off Congressional anger by suspending its controversial aid to the Indonesian Army (ABRI). It is however clear that Washington will not terminate the ...

... certainly someone whom Post reporter Bob Woodward met during his 65-70 tour of duty in the Navy. As Secret Agenda relates, that tour of duty saw Woodward joining an elite unit of the US Navy briefing officers, while at the same time presiding over the ultrasecret code-room of the Chief of Naval Operations (then Admiral Thomas Moorer) at the Pentagon. The extraordinary sensitivity of this post, according to others who have held it, made Woodward a member of "an old boys' network" whose influence in Washington is said to be profound. (others in the group include Senator Richard Lugar and Admiral Bobby Ray Inman.) In Secret Agenda I suggest that Admiral Inman, ...

... > Graham and Congressman Porter Goss, both from Florida.3 General Ahmed was to lose his job the following month having been said to have arranged a $100,000 wire payment to the alleged lead hijacker.4 That man, Mohammed Atta, was reportedly living in the home state of Graham and Goss while preparing to attack the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and whatever was the intended target of the fourth hijacked plane that day.5 Graham, a veteran legislator with a long interest in intelligence matters, was soon to co-chair the Joint Congressional Intelligence Inquiry into what became known as 9/11. Democrat Graham, now 79, is still in the news having successfully campaigned for declassification of 28 pages ...